Milly Hall, MS, LPC is a Quality Assurance Specialist with Missouri Department of Mental Health and has been with the agency for 20 years. She also serves as a SOAR Local Lead, helping to implement SOAR for both adults and children across the state and she recently attended the child focused SOAR Leadership Academy in Washington, DC.
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SOAR for Children: Building Resiliency & Supporting Families
Dan Coladonato is a Project Associate for the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center. Prior to joining the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center, he worked for an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in San Diego, CA which served adults with severe and persistent mental illness and a history of homelessness. During his time providing psychosocial rehabilitation services with the ACT team, Dan was SOAR trained, completed many SOAR SSI/SSDI applications, and eventually became the ACT team’s Benefits Specialist. In addition to assisting individuals acquire SSA and other benefits, Dan helped individuals with the post-entitlement transition, representative payee services, and the transition back to work. After attending a SOAR Leadership Academy in San Diego in 2016, Dan became a SOAR Local Lead in San Diego which eventually led him to his current position.
Presentation(s):
SOAR for Children: Building Resiliency & Supporting Families
Abigail Kirkman, M.A. is a Senior Project Associate for the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center. She is the SOAR subject matter expert on American Indian and Alaska Native populations and has expertise with implementing SOAR in rural communities. Prior to joining PRA, she worked as a case manager and employment specialist where she managed programs to retrain and employ at risk youth and individuals with disabilities. She also coordinated a housing and employment program for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Abigail has a B.A. from the College of William & Mary, an M.A. from the University at Albany and has received comprehensive SSI/SSDI benefits training through Cornell University. She is responsible for TA to the states of AR, CA, CO, CT, IL, IA, KS, MO, MT, NE, NM, NY, PA, SD, and VA.
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SOAR for Children: Building Resiliency & Supporting Families
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Presentation: SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) for Children has proven to increase access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for children and youth with disabling conditions who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The curriculum emphasizes SSA work incentives that make it possible for youth to pursue vocational goals, while maintaining benefits. Learn how SOAR can be integrated into programming to ensure the right combination of services to best suit current and future needs.
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The Missouri Opioid State Targeted Response and State Opioid Response (Opioid STR and SOR) projects aim to expand access to integrated prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) throughout the state. The primary focus is on rigorous, multidisciplinary provider training and education on Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and the provision of evidence-based treatment services to uninsured individuals with OUD presenting for care within state-funded programs. Primary prevention activities center around increased awareness and decreased availability of opioids, led by local agencies in high risk areas. Prevention of overdose deaths will be accomplished through training clinical providers and at-risk individuals in the criminal justice system on Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution practices, and providing telemedicine didactic and consultation services to primary care providers treating chronic pain. Recovery support services will be provided in the form of Recovery Community Centers, supportive housing, and recovery management checkups, all delivered with a focus on peer engagement.
Combined with coordinated interagency collaboration, policy change, and sophisticated evaluation, the Opioid STR and SOR projects aim to transform the system of care for OUD in Missouri. This will be accomplished by developing evidence-based protocols, implementing multimodal professional training and consultation programs, and delivering effective and compassionate services to individuals in high need throughout the state.
The Opioid SOR grant continues the efforts of Opioid STR, while also funding innovative new interventions focused on OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery.
website: https://missouriopioidstr.org/
Show-Me ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) uses videoconferencing to connect interdisciplinary teams of experts with primary care clinicians and other professionals.
website: https://Showmeecho.org
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Presentation: What is wrong with MAT? What is wrong with faith-based approaches? What is wrong with evidence-based treatment? What is wrong with recovery support services? This session will help you find the answers to any of those questions! This is a session about ethics, values, morals, personal worldview and professional acculturation in the practice of treatment and recovery support for opioid use disorders and other substance use disorders. Participants will learn about the ecology of substance use treatment and recovery support and issues that arise with scientific discovery such as evidence-based practices and effective interventions, medication assisted treatment/recovery, integration of faith-based approaches, etc. Such contemporary issues tend to challenge the stability of any professional and require of them to affirm or resist change. They will learn models of working through dissonance and finding a new stability. They will identify external and internal influences that impact their emerging worldview, personal and professional acculturation. Discussion with participants will be based on morals, values, sources of power and influence in the acculturation process, and the ethics of providing value-sensitive care and due care to individuals and families struggling with opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders. This presentation is ethics beyond the ‘typical’ topics of dual relationships and abuse of power with clients. It is about us as professionals and our personal worldview and professional acculturation.
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Presentation: This workshop will provide participants with the information and tools necessary to screen for substance use and mental health coercion and to support clients’ ability to safely cope with these dynamics. Workshop participants will review literature on the prevalence of DV/IPV among clients seeking mental health and SUD services. Common coercive dynamics as they relate to clients’ ability to seek and obtain mental health and SUD services will also be discussed in conjunction with trauma-informed practices for screening and safety planning in a variety of practice settings (ie: shelters, outpatient treatment programs, MAT clinics, at home). Using case-based scenarios, workshop participants will actively practice developing collaborative safety and treatment plans that are reflective of clients’ unique needs.
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Ignacio “Alex” Barajas Munoz, PhD
Presentation: This presentation focuses on how culture and cultural change affects Latinos’ Mental Health. Cultural factors in treatment and clinical issues related to culture are explored, and approaches to integrating culture into therapy are proposed. Problems faced by individuals around access and readiness for treatment, and sustaining a course of recovery are discussed.
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Geoffrey Schaefer is a graduate of University of Missouri-Columbia School of Social Work. He has extensive social services experience in working with at-risk youth, people with severe emotional disabilities, geriatrics, and substance use. He has worked as a hospital social worker, in child protective services, at the Department of Mental Health, and currently is employed at Father’s Support Center as a family therapist.
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The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences & Trauma on Fathers
